Werke Ferdinand Gehrs in Zug, Oberwil und Bad Schönbrunn

Ferdinand Gehr (1896–1996) zählt zu den bedeutendsten Künstlern der Schweizer Moderne. Über sieben Jahrzehnte hinweg entwickelte er eine unverwechselbare Bildsprache. Natur, Theologie und Literatur inspirierten seinen meditativen Schaffensprozess, der stets nach innerer Wahrheit sowie formaler Reduktion strebte. Trotz anfänglicher Widerstände – etwa der Verhüllung seiner Fresken in Ob…

Exploring the Thought of Jane JacobsThe Conversation of Cities

In conversation with the great works of author, theorist, and activist Jane Jacobs, this study investigates her thoughts on cities, nations, and economies for today's urban challenges. With the publication of The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961), Jane Jacobs (1916-2006) changed the way urban planners, architects, politicians, and ordinary citizens the world over understood the ci…

The Houses of St. Augustine

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, St. Augustine was already half a century old. Founded in 1565, the city has been continuously inhabited ever since, and its architectural styles tell stories of boom and bust, fad and tradition, war and peace, modernization and historic preservation. This affectionate portrait of our oldest city offers a comprehensive survey of the many architectural …

Historia mínima de Irán moderno

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Un siglo de Fervor: Jorge Luis Borges (1923-2023)

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La clandestinidad anarquista. De la Comuna de París a la Mano Negra (1871-1883)

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bauen, retten, pflegenTexte zur Bauwende

Im Bauwesen hatte die Zeitenwende sich lange angekündigt: in Befunden, Warnungen, Bekenntnissen. Seit die Hinterlassenschaften des Bauens – maroder Altbestand, Brachen, Schutt und Emissionen – mehr Aufmerksamkeit finden als die Bauten selbst, müssen die Architektur, der Städte- und Landschaftsbau und auch die Denkmalpflege den Kurs wechseln. Aber wohin? Wo das Ziel ungewiss oder umstritt…

Playhouses and PrivilegeThe Architecture of Elite Childhood

Examining playhouses of the super-rich to understand how architecture contributed to the construction of elite identity and modern childhood Playhouses and Privilege explores children’s playhouses built on British and American estates between the 1850s and the mid-1930s. Different from the prefabricated buildings that later populated suburban backyards, these playhouses were often fully …

Savage Mind to Savage MachineRacial Science and Twentieth-Century Design

An examination of how concepts of “the savage” facilitated technological approaches to modernist design Attempting to derive aesthetic systems from natural structures of human cognition, designers looked toward the “savage mind”—a way of thinking they associated with a racialized subaltern. In Savage Mind to Savage Machine, Ginger Nolan uncovers an enduring relati…

How the Working-Class Home Became Modern, 1900–1940

The transformation of average Americans’ domestic lives, revealed through the mechanical innovations and physical improvements of their homes At the turn of the nineteenth century, the average American family still lived by kerosene light, ate in the kitchen, and used an outhouse. By 1940, electric lights, dining rooms, and bathrooms were the norm as the traditional working-class home wa…